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Newspaper clipping from the Washington Evening Star regarding the Italian seamen sent to Fort Missoula for internment

Newspaper clipping from the Washington Evening Star regarding the Italian seamen sent to Fort Missoula for internment

the washington "evening star" saturday, may 17, 1941
483 Italian Seamen Sent To Montana for Internment
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 17.�Four hundred and eighty-three Italian seamen taken into custody when the Government took charge of Axis ships in United States ports were started by train today for internment at Fort Missoula, Mont.
Of the total, 318 had been held at Ellis Island after being brought here from Panama, where they were picked up when the liner Conte Biancamano was seized. They were taken from the island in Government cutters, under heavy guard, to the Lehigh Valley Railroad station at Jersey City and put aboard a special train for the West.
The 165 others had been held at the Gloucester (N. J.) detention house of the Immigration Bureau. Guarded by border patrolmen and New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Police, they were taken to Philadelphia and put on a train meeting the New York special at Bethlehem, Pi .
4The transfer, immigration offlcia j slid, was on orders from Washington.

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Newspaper clipping from the Washington Evening Star regarding the Italian seamen sent to Fort Missoula for internment

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the washington "evening star" saturday, may 17, 1941
483 Italian Seamen Sent To Montana for Internment
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 17.�Four hundred and eighty-three Italian seamen taken into custody when the Government took charge of Axis ships in United States ports were started by train today for internment at Fort Missoula, Mont.
Of the total, 318 had been held at Ellis Island after being brought here from Panama, where they were picked up when the liner Conte Biancamano was seized. They were taken from the island in Government cutters, under heavy guard, to the Lehigh Valley Railroad station at Jersey City and put aboard a special train for the West.
The 165 others had been held at the Gloucester (N. J.) detention house of the Immigration Bureau. Guarded by border patrolmen and New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Police, they were taken to Philadelphia and put on a train meeting the New York special at Bethlehem, Pi .
4The transfer, immigration offlcia j slid, was on orders from Washington.